Edition No. 111 · Sun 11 Oct 2026 · Story 20 of 26

Built on ash: what Old Tokyo taught me about modern media resilience

Future Media

Ricky Sutton uses Tokyo's history of rebuilding after disaster to argue publishers should price their journalism, including to AI platforms.

AI

Interest score

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Each factor is 1.00 when it has nothing to say, so a missing input never sinks a story. The full working is on the method page.

  • 1.50Interest score12 of 26 in this edition
  • 1.00NewslettersCount not recorded yet, so neutral
  • 1.50On this siteWhat it touches: places, clubs, leagues
  • 1.00MovementNew this week

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Each morning the Daily Newsletter Digest reads about fifty newsletters, groups them by theme and records an audio episode. These are the day’s most substantive stories from it, each with a direct link to the original article.

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